The Preservation Foundation
was
incorporated in 1976. In 1997 we published our first story on
our website. Since then we've published more than 1,500.

In 2001, we published our
first paperback, A Curiosity of Cats.
Ten years later we published our first E-Book. Actually, we
published five - a series by 90-year-old Mary McIntosh
entitled Mary's Diary, A Secret Journal of the 1930s.
The books cover the years 1935 - 1939, one volume for each
year. Not long after that we converted the series into five well-received paperbacks.

Click
here to see Mary's books as well as all our other publications at
Amazon. You can also buy one of
them
(thank you
very much) or sample one or more for free.

You don't need a
Kindle to read
the E-Books. You can download free apps from
Amazon that will let you read them on computers or practically any other internet
connected devices now available or to come.

In 2012 we added
print-on-demand publishing of traditional books. We have 16
paperbacks
currently for sale at Amazon and 14 E-Books.

Why publish your manuscript as
a traditional paperback and/or E-Book?

Simple. It will be sold by the world's largest
bookseller - Amazon. It will also be picked up and possibly sold by other
retailers and wholesalers. Once published, your
paperback book can be seen, bought, and read by almost anyone in the
world. Your E-Book can be read on
their
computer, their mobile phone, or other internet connected device.
And you can be published soon, not years from now or never.

Do you need The Preservation
Foundation
as
your publisher? Couldn't you publish your own book? The
answer is yes and no. The programming for Kindle is a little
daunting unless you are pretty good with computers. I
spend weeks
learning how to put Mary's books on Kindle before I was able to
get a satisfactory layout completed. It took time and hard
work.

After that I had to learn an
entirely new process in order to convert manuscript text files into
files that could be used for the production of print-on-demand
paperback books.

So, yes, you could do that for
yourself
and be your own publisher. If you are
familiar with HTML programming and have good computer skills then
I'd say give it a try.

But if you don't have those
skills
or the
time to acquire them then you will need a publisher.

So why choose us? What
makes us
different?

If you check the web for book
publishers
you will find hundreds out there. Some are honest and
charge a reasonable fee for their work. Most do a good job but be
prepared to pay in advance for the time and expertise they give you.

Others are just a new variety of vanity press that will promise
the moon but deliver very little other than requests for money.
Don't get sucked in by empty promises.

We charge no fees for
publishing
your
work. We simply agree to accept 30% of any royalties that may
be paid by Amazon or other retailers. Or, if you have a profit from
sales you make we hope you will decide to make a voluntary
contribution to our program. Since we are a
nonprofit corporation any such contribution will be tax deductible
if you are a U.S. citizen.
Click here to
see our contract.

The
only up-front costs an author might have would be for any charges from a
third party that you hire for copy editing or rewriting before sending us your book.

Should you expect your book to
earn lots of bucks? Not unless you are willing to promote it or
hire someone to do it for you. Whether you publish it
yourself or we do it for you, the promotion has to be done by you.
Maybe you'll get lucky and get a review that sparks great sales.
Or maybe we can convince a commercial publisher to take over the
book. It could happen. But most books are going to have to
depend on whatever help you
can give them. So sales may not be great. Still, the
satisfaction of having your hard work published and available for sale
may be reward enough. You'll have to decide that.

So we are willing to gamble
that our
time
and expertise spent in making your book available to the world-wide
traditional and E-Book
market will eventually pay off in royalties for us both. We
know that some will do well and others may not. If one doesn't
then
we are willing to take the loss.

Our fundamental reason for
existing is
to "preserve
the extraordinary stories of 'ordinary' people." And "extraordinary people" too.

Nonfiction books,
and especially biography
and autobiography, are our primary focus. Beyond that we will
also publish a limited number of fiction
books we judge to be outstanding. We want to publish books that
will help
preserve for future readers the personal insights and wisdom of our
fine family of writers.

Now that I'm retired from my
day job
with
Smith Barney I enjoy spending much of my time building a
list of quality books for
our paperback and E-Book line. Maybe yours will be one of
them.

So if you have a book
length manuscript that is ready
for
publication, write or call us. Together we can decide if
publication
by The Preservation Foundation is a good fit for both of us.